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The modern economy is built on addiction

27 December 2021

8:23 PM

27 December 2021

8:23 PM

Two stories, side-by-side in theSunday paper I was looking at online. The first — ‘Strip Dame Dopesick ofher title’ — was a report that the families of victimsof opioid addiction were campaigning for Dame Theresa Sackler,whose family profited unimaginably from marketing addictive legalpainkillers, to be stripped of her title. The second was the story ofhow the writer and TV presenter Richard Osman had spoken on BBCRadio Four of struggling with an addiction to crisps, chocolate andbiscuits for four decades.

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